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HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.7
/102950/
78
/2891/
77
/1906/
3.9
/129869/
73
/126/
94
/7799/
78
/7/
cc age 14+

The Color Purple (1985)
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
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fuboTV
78
7.4
/22811/
73
/721/
71
/343/
3.6
/23279/
86
/139/
81
/2578/
72
/30/
cc age 8+

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.
poster
74
6.8
/27100/
69
/851/
64
/439/
3.7
/40998/
92
/123/
71
/379/
78
/21/
cc age 15+

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
74
6.9
/20011/
74
/779/
72
/382/
3.7
/28236/
71
/38/
89
/1639/
62
/24/
cc age 16+

Set It Off (1996)
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
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Hoopla
73
6.9
/6201/
72
/184/
64
/81/
3.2
/2709/
83
/18/
73
/127/

The Doctor (1991)
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
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YouTube TV
67
6.9
/336225/
71
/9880/
67
/4506/
3.5
/190957/
59
/70/
75
/12750/
52
/23/
cc age 17+

Con Air (1997)
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
poster
61
6.4
/2823/
69
/88/
62
/42/
3.4
/960/
27
/11/
76
/63/

Panther (1995)
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
59
6.1
/126816/
65
/6749/
62
/3522/
2.6
/182891/
56
/126/
51
/1249/
52
/26/
cc age 15+

Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm, 'The Further'.
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The Roku Channel
57
5.9
/8485/
59
/185/
58
/131/
2.9
/3498/
58
/24/
40
/85/
62
/8/

Nothing in Common (1986)
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
55
5.5
/1184/
62
/38/
50
/23/
3.1
/502/
52
/26/

Caught Up (1998)
Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job. His new girlfriend Vanessa, whom he meets when a gunman opens fire on them, gets him a job as a car driver. Hitmen are still after them, and Vanessa tells Daryl that this is her former lover Ahmad who wants revenge.
poster
62
50
6.4
/4240/
61
/33/
61
/48/
3.2
/1079/
63
/27/
62
/103/
62
/10/

Land of Plenty (2004)
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
poster
The Roku Channel
47
5.7
/4957/
62
/114/
57
/100/
2.8
/1596/
21
/14/
29
/44/

Sunset (1988)
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
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Amazon Prime Video
43
4.6
/26049/
58
/977/
54
/481/
2.4
/20277/
16
/98/
51
/1811/
33
/26/
cc age 18+

Soul Plane (2004)
Following a ridiculously awful flight that leads to his pet's death, Nashawn Wade files a lawsuit against the airline, and wins a multimillion-dollar settlement. Determined to create a better flying experience, Nashawn starts his own airline, one that caters to an African-American clientele. Going into business with a tricked-out plane piloted by the smooth Capt. Mack, the airline hits a snag when it has to deal with the family of Elvis Hunkee.
poster
41
5.5
/4362/
58
/89/
55
/61/
2.7
/1444/
15
/34/
28
/85/

Dear God (1996)
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
37
6.5
/635/
71
/44/
58
/13/
3.4
/268/
88
/16/
94
/34/
cc age 14+

Princess of the Row (2020)
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
33
5.1
/2304/
62
/212/
58
/57/
2.5
/749/
25
/8/
78
/18/
12
/5/
cc age 13+

I Hate Kids (2019)
Nick Pearson is a life-long bachelor who is finally settling down. On the brink of his wedding he is surprised to find he has a 13 year old son who has come to find his him through the help of a psychic. The problem is Nick can't stand kids and would happily send the boy back to live with his biological mother, except that no one has any clue who that might be. Having nowhere to turn Nick must hit the road with the boy and the neurotic, inept psychic to track down dozens of his disgraced ex-flings to whom he must ask the awkward question - with very mixed results.
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55
28
4.2
/1281/
63
/39/
46
/21/
2.9
/540/
70
/71/

Hot Boyz (2000)
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
poster
59
14
6.0
/695/
56
/13/
55
/18/
3.3
/300/

Murder Was the Case (1995)
Follows the exploits of Snoop Doggy Dogg as he gets shot, and makes a deal with the devil to survive.
poster
41
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5.2
/133/
15
/4/
40
/1/
41
/17/
71
/6/
32
/10/

Footprints (2011)
An amnesiac young woman (Sybil Temtchine) wakes up, face down on the footprints of Graumans Chinese Theatre, and spends one day, from sunrise to sunset, entirely on Hollywood Boulevard, piecing together her identity through her interaction with a host of disparate characters and famous locales.
poster
44
?
5.5
/153/
50
/1/
30
/2/

Terror on Highway 91 (1989)
A police deputy in a small town grows more and more disgusted with the rampant corruption and brutality practiced by the sheriff and his fellow officers.
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The Roku Channel
56
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4.5
/438/
62
/24/
62
/13/

The Hustle (2008)
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
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Fandango at Home Free
46
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4.3
/1107/
52
/17/
44
/21/

The Job (2003)
CJ is a sexy, cold-blooded assassin who wants to quit the business. She agrees to carry out one last hit, but for the first time in her career as an assassin, she is unable to finish the job.
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Fifty & Over Club (2015)
In 1970, Tony and Lawson started a cool club with the kids in the neighborhood, were boys could be boys. Now late into their 50's, the club is still going strong - too bad the same can't be said about their relationships.
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Sonny (2013)
This short film tells the story of an amnesic, generous homeless man, Sonny, who squats in a dirty old RV on an empty lot, mostly keeping to himself. When he discovers his RV has been towed, he must get past his fear and pride, and befriend a brash young woman, in order to reclaim his RV and rediscover his identity. From an award-winning filmmaker but first-time director.


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